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Does my duck have bumblefoot?
I can try tomorrow afternoon after DH gets home. I definitely can't get the picture without his help. It doesn't look like the online pics of bumblefoot in ducks (not that there are many). It's just a little pinkish and swollen. Could he have stepped on a bee? We have tons of bees around here...- Corrigan
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Does my duck have bumblefoot?
(Sorry, I didn't realize this forum was here and posted in the ducks forum first.) I noticed this afternoon that my 13-ish week old duck was holding one foot off the ground as he was standing and limping when he walked. I was afraid he wouldn't let me catch him to look at it and I didn't want...- Corrigan
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Oops...moved to emergencies board. Sorry.
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Pekin duck - given away already.
I'm not sure of the appropriate way to note that things have been sold/traded/given away here, but this duck has gone to a great home with a giant pond and lots of other water fowl.- Corrigan
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Might have to rehome a very noisy KC!
Just to be clear, I did expect some quacking. What I didn't expect was one duck quacking her head off almost all day long. lol The lady at city hall was weirdly evasive, first just telling me that she didn't think I could have ducks or chickens because "When we let people have chickens, all we... -
Might have to rehome a very noisy KC!
I just thought muscovies didn't lay many eggs and that's the main reason we got ducks. I'm so glad I didn't get 7 lectures about how mean I am to "get rid of" a pet like that. Talking to one of my animal lover friends, you'd think I'd decided to cut its legs off and watch it suffer, just for... -
Might have to rehome a very noisy KC!
So I called city hall today, to find out whether or not we're legal, because this one Khaki Campbell apparently feels it is her duty to the world to quack non-stop...LOUDLY. lol I am not bothered by it, but I'm pretty sure my neighbors might not appreciate it and I really don't want them to get... -
organic feeds?
Organic farmers absolutely are not allowed to spray conventional pesticides, herbicides, fungicides or fertilizers on their crops under ANY circumstances. In fact, if they were to do so, not only would that particular crop lose its organic classification, but they would be unable to use that...- Corrigan
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- Forum: Feeding & Watering Your Flock
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More on Ducks vs. Chickens?
I'm no expert, as these are our first ducks (we have 5) and they're only 8 weeks or so old, but my lot's just over 3/4 of an acre and my ducks have come nowhere near tearing it up. Most of the time we keep them shut up over in a small corner of the yard, because otherwise they will not stay off... -
Angelwing, protein levels, and processed food - Can this be a sticky?
I'm new to ducks, but not to medical research, so I guess I'm sort of entitled to an opinion. lol The proper term for the whole loading the gun/pulling the trigger analogy is 'epigenetics'. The expression of genes can be highly dependent on environmental factors. People have a tendency to think... -
poll: are you legal or an outlaw?
Hmmm. I have no idea. I only live on .82 acres, but our subdivision was plunked down in the middle of nowhere. We don't even have a Wal-Mart, which I could care less about, but it does kind of say how far out in the sticks we are. I assume since we're in the middle of nowhere, it's probably...- Corrigan
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- Forum: Local Chicken Laws & Ordinances
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Guess I didn't need to worry about the cat
I posted about cats right before we got our ducklings, because I was afraid our cat might kill the ducks. Yeah, that was a stupid thing to worry about. Today while my daughter and I were sitting out with the ducks, one of them just started quacking and squawking, raised its wings and took off... -
Will swimming = mud pit?
Okay, now that I've had more time to ponder what I really wanted to know when I asked a rather pointless question about pools vs. ponds a week or so ago (lol)..... I had figured we'd do the wading pool, since it's cheaper, and just relocate it every time I emptied it. The ducks have about a... -
That's not a quack!
We have at least two quackers! Yay! I've been hearing them quack for several days, but until I was able to hear some real life males vs. females (mallards) at the zoo today in the flamingo enclosure I wasn't sure if I was just wrong. Our Pekin is sometimes quacking (LOUDLY, I might add, lol) and... -
That's not a quack!
Quote: See, that's the noise I was expecting to hear from males, based on the recordings on the majestic waterfowl website. I guess the two I have sound more like wifezilla's recording and the mw recording of a female than they do if that mw recording of a male. They definitely don't sound as... -
That's not a quack!
I have four khaki campbells and one pekin, all four weeks old. Two of them are not squeaking anymore, but they aren't quacking like any quack I've ever heard, either. They're just sounding like....uh, I hate trying to describe sounds, lol...sounding like when you push your finger down and slide... -
Tiny pond or kiddie pool?
We don't have enough land to dig a large pond, so we're trying to decide between a little kiddie wading pool or one of those small ponds from Lowe's - maybe 90 gallons, I think. The pond is obviously more attractive and holds slightly more water, but how often do you think it would have to be... -
Waterer for duck house?
What do you use to give your ducks water at night? They manage to make a mess from their water in everything I've given it to them - even those little chicken waterers. Somehow they even splash water everywhere from one of those. Is there anything you can use that will keep them from somehow... -
Is it true...sexing Khaki Campbell ducklings
I can post some pictures tomorrow, if someone will tell me how, lol. I assume they have to be linked through something like photobucket, right? They're really still tiny ducklings - maybe a week and a half or so, since we just picked them up last Friday and I assume they were a "fresh batch" the... -
Is it true...sexing Khaki Campbell ducklings
Is it true that developing a white spot on the neck is a definite indication of being a male...er, drake, drake. I have to get the lingo down. I read that on only one site, so I was pretty sure it's not true, but I am curious, as I got some unsexed ducklings at a local farm store and one has...